The campaign to end assault against women must also include men.
Movies
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An Inescapable Truth
In the Oscar-nominated The Gatekeepers, Israel’s domestic spymasters make the price of occupation clear.
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Fracking versus the Boondocks
Promised Land bills itself as an environmental movie, but it’s far more concerned with preserving Dan Barry-esque small-town America mythology.
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Making Liberal Hearts Bleed in Anytown, U.S.A.
What is the purpose of didactic movies like Promised Land?
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Making Liberal Hearts Bleed in Anytown, U.S.A.
What is the purpose of didactic movies like Promised Land?
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Condemned Love
Amour, Michael Haneke’s latest film, is a horror story with a foregone conclusion.
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Don’t Put Flowers on Hollywood’s Grave Yet
Film could be headed for a renaissance instead of its long-predicted journey into the blockbuster night.
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Zero Dark Thirty: Homeland’s Prequel?
In both cultural depictions, September 11 is a wound that never heals.
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Zero Dark Thirty’s Morality Brigade
Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama bin Laden movie doesn’t endorse torture.
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Dial M for Meh
Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock fails to capture the artistry of the famed director.